On May 15, 10:44 pm, Len Graceffo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everybody!!! I really need some advice. Please read the following
> correspondences with my friend Shelly in Canada. I've been told by foreigners
> living in Cambodia that the poor can't go to bed with money in their pocket
> as they're programmed to a "day to day" survival mentality. I'm a Canadian
> who has been giving $100.00 U.S./month for the last 2 years to a family of 7
> (5 kids). That's about $157.00 CDN with the exchange and western union fees
> that they don't seem to understand. The mother can't read I found out as I
> was pointing to the months written in Khmer in my translation book and she
> didn't understand. But she knows her numbers !!! The attractive, intelligent
> 17 year old girl "Mach" lives in Krawlann,Siem Reap behind the market in a
> shack off of National Rd #6 at the intersection of the road that goes north
> to O'Smach. My recent trip a month ago revealed that food prices are a lot
> higher than Thailand's. Why? A skinny whole chicken cost 150 baht !!! I've
> been told that university educated people don't earn $100.00/month U.S. I
> don't want her ending up in prostitution as she's the eldest daughter. They
> keep asking for more money and its making me angry. Can't they just accept
> $100.00 U.S and be grateful? This time it's to "make rice" up at the family
> farm in Samrong. I told the parents that they can do whatever they want with
> the money as long as Mach is in English school for the half day I believe and
> the other half in Khmer. I've just told her a few days ago I want her needs
> met and to tell her mother that $50.00/month is for Mach and the other 50 is
> for the family. I give $100.00U.S./month to cover any lost wages since Mach
> is supposed to be studying. I really like her Dad Pin. He's a driver/farmer
> apparently and seems to work the Krawlann/Samrong/Anlong Veng triangle. With
> all those kids is it possible to save money out of that $100.00U.S. I'm lost.
> I feel like cutting them off or reducing it to $50.00/month Please advise,
> Lenny G
My conscience is very critical toward the Cambodian culture, which
many people have been disputing.
It's not bad when a society carries a good culture, which many
Cambodians have been trying to pursuade others to believe.
This is where i have problems with. It's very simple to think of it.
Why have Cambodians destroying their own people with their own hands
in their own country with or without the help of other nations?
Why are the Cambodian poeple blaming their own illnesses on someone
else and trying to make others believe them as victims?
Many people think that Cambodians truely believe in buddha. Why did
they kill and tortured millions of their own people during the Khmer
Rogue era?
Why are they still doing it as many people are trying to tell us here?
The more we read about it, the more bad stuffs are coming out from our
conclusion.
In your case, that is a part of it. You think that you are helping
some innocent people who are crying for help. Instead, you are being
victimized by those people. That's Cambodia,.
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